1900 - 1st Bn Oxf LI - ordered to take part in the invasion of the Orange Free State.(Boer War)

1918 – 2nd Bn OXF & BUCKS LI – METZ-EN-COUTURE.The billets were shelled in two bursts at 3.30 a.m. and 5.30 a.m. There were no casualties, although several shells came unpleasantly close to where men were quartered. Permission was asked for, and given, for the position of the Reserve Battalion to be changed, and at about 3 p.m. the Regiment marched by companies except A Coy, which remained in Metz till 12th owing to having to find a working party, to a new camp, pitched in irregular formation on both sides of the METZ-EQUANCOURT cross-country track, about three-quarters of a mile clear of Metz.